Race, Crime, and the Law

An admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book" (New York Times Book Review) that uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect Black people from criminals.

This book should be a standard for all law students.--Boston Globe

In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy explores allegations that Black people are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.

Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/31/1998
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780375701849
ISBN10: 0375701842
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Criminal Law | General
- Social Science | Criminology
- Political Science | Law Enforcement

About the Author
Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Yale University. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the author of six books, including Race, Crime, and the Law, for which he received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. A member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States and the District of Columbia, and of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he lives in Massachusetts.